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most citedSITELLE: An Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer for the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope

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astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

SIGNALS of Giant HII Regions: A Spatially Resolved Analysis of NGC 604

Ray Garner, Robert C. Kennicutt, Laurent Drissen +6

Observing giant HII regions at fine spatial scales uncovers detailed structures and reveals variations in ionization, abundance, and dynamical properties of ionized gas and the eff…

astro-ph.GA2025

Ionized gas in NGC 4258: Exploring the AGN -- Star formation connection

D. Fernández-Arenas, L. Rousseau-Nepton, C. Robert +9

NGC 4258 is a prime target for studying feedback in Low-Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei (LLAGNs) due to its proximity and comprehensive multi-wavelength coverage. Using new Integ…

astro-ph.GA2025

WISDOM project -- XXIII. Star-formation efficiencies of eight early-type galaxies and bulges observed with SITELLE and ALMA

Anan Lu, Daryl Haggard, Martin Bureau +18

Early-type galaxies (ETGs) are known to harbour dense spheroids of stars with scarce star formation (SF). Approximately a quarter of these galaxies have rich molecular gas reservoi…

astro-ph.GA2025

SIGNALS on the mixing of oxygen and nitrogen in the spiral galaxy NGC 6946

Fabio Bresolin, David Fernández-Arenas, Laurie Rousseau-Nepton +10

As part of the SIGNALS survey, which comprises a sample of approximately 40 nearby galaxies observed with the Fourier transform spectrometer SITELLE, we present a study of metal mi…

astro-ph.GA2024

NGC 628 in SIGNALS: Explaining the Abundance-Ionization Correlation in HII Regions

Ray Garner, Robert Kennicutt, Laurie Rousseau-Nepton +5

The variations of oxygen abundance and ionization parameter in HII regions are usually thought to be the dominant factors that produced variations seen in observed emission line sp…

astro-ph.GA2024

Properties of supernova remnants in SIGNALS galaxies -- I . NGC 6822 and M33

Salvador Duarte Puertas, Laurent Drissen, Carmelle Robert +4

We present a spatially resolved study of the kinematical properties of known supernova remnants (SNRs) in the nearest galaxies of the SIGNALS survey, namely NGC 6822 (one object) a…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

WISDOM project XX -- Strong shear tearing molecular clouds apart in NGC 524

Anan Lu, Daryl Haggard, Martin Bureau +17

Early-type galaxies (ETGs) are known to harbour dense spheroids of stars but scarce star formation (SF). Approximately a quarter of these galaxies have rich molecular gas reservoir…

astro-ph.SR2024

Ring nebulae around Wolf-Rayet stars in M33 as seen by SITELLE

Selin Tuquet, Nicole St. -Louis, Laurent Drissen +5

We have conducted an analysis of nebulae around Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars in M33 using data collected by the imaging Fourier transform spectrometer SITELLE at the Canada-France-Hawaii…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 13 cited

High-Spectral Resolution Observations of the Optical Filamentary Nebula in NGC 1275

Benjamin Vigneron, Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo, Carter Lee Rhea +18

We present new high-spectral resolution observations (R = = 7000) of the filamentary nebula surrounding NGC 1275, the central galaxy of the Perseus cluster. These observatio…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 9 cited

Constraining the LyC escape fraction from LEGUS star clusters with SIGNALS HII region observations: A pilot study of NGC 628

J. W. Teh, K. Grasha, M. R. Krumholz +23

The ionising radiation of young and massive stars is a crucial form of stellar feedback. Most ionising (Lyman-continuum; LyC, ) photons are absorbed close to the stars tha…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 3 cited

Forming Stars in a Dual AGN Host: Molecular and Ionized Gas in the Nearby, Luminous Infrared Merger, Mrk 266

Damien Beaulieu, Andreea Petric, Carmelle Robert +5

We present star formation rates based on cold and ionized gas measurements of Mrk 266 (NGC 5256), a system composed of two colliding gas-rich galaxies, each hosting an active galac…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 13 cited

WISDOM project -- XI. Star Formation Efficiency in the Bulge of the AGN-host Galaxy NGC 3169 with SITELLE and ALMA

Anan Lu, Hope Boyce, Daryl Haggard +19

The star formation efficiency (SFE) has been shown to vary across different environments, particularly within galactic starbursts and deep within the bulges of galaxies. Various qu…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 22 cited

Stellar feedback in M83 as observed with MUSE -- I. Overview, an unprecedented view of the stellar and gas kinematics and evidence of outflowing gas

Lorenza Della Bruna, Angela Adamo, Philippe Amram +14

We present a large VLT/MUSE mosaic (3.8 x 3.8 kpc) of the nearby spiral galaxy M83, with a spatial resolution ~20 pc. We obtained the kinematics of the stars and ionised gas, and c…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 1 cited

A Search for Supernova Light Echoes in NGC 6946 with SITELLE

M. C. Radica, D. Welch, L. Rousseau-Nepton

We present the analysis of four hours of spectroscopic observations of NGC 6946 with the SITELLE Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, acqui…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 1 cited

O CAESAR: The Optical CAtalogue of Extragalactic SupernovA Remnants

I. Moumen, C. Robert, D. Devost +6

We present O CAESAR, the Optical CAtalogue of Extragalactic SupernovA Remnants. O CAESAR will provide the largest homogeneous optical survey of extragalactic SNR candidates taken b…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 64 cited

SIGNALS: I. Survey Description

L. Rousseau-Nepton, R. P. Martin, C. Robert +60

SIGNALS, the Star formation, Ionized Gas, and Nebular Abundances Legacy Survey, is a large observing program designed to investigate massive star formation and HII regions in a sam…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 19 cited

3D Optical Spectroscopic Study of NGC3344 with SITELLE: I. Identification and Confirmation of Supernova Remnants

Ismael Moumen, Carmelle Robert, Daniel Devost +4

We present the first optical identification and confirmation of a sample of supernova remnants (SNRs) in the nearby galaxy NGC3344. Using high spectral and spatial resolution data,…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 75 cited

SITELLE: An Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer for the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope

Laurent Drissen, Thomas Martin, Laurie Rousseau-Nepton +11

We present an overview of SITELLE, an Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer (iFTS) available at the 3.6-meter Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. SITELLE is a Michelson-type interfero…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 57 cited

NGC628 with SITELLE : I. Imaging Spectroscopy of 4285 HII region candidates

Laurie Rousseau-Nepton, Carmelle Robert, Laurent Drissen +2

This is the first paper of a series dedicated to nebular physics and the chemical evolution of nearby galaxies by investigating large samples of HII regions with the CFHT imaging s…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 3 cited

New scientific results with SpIOMM: a testbed for CFHT's imaging Fourier transform spectrometer SITELLE

L. Drissen, A. Alarie, T. Martin +6

We present new data obtained with SpIOMM, the imaging Fourier transform spectrometer attached to the 1.6-m telescope of the Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic in Québec. Recent technica…